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If you live in a 1st world country, your country believes in the coercive appropriation of other's property. You already participate in that appropriation. Th
by imchillyb 3y ago
If you live in a 1st world country, your country believes in the coercive appropriation of other's property.
You already participate in that appropriation. The coercive appropriation is called taxation. You can choose to not pay, but you'll be incarcerated. You cannot choose where your monies go, or what they go for.
You're already a participant, and you don't seem to realize it.
Also, eleemosynary... really? Means charitable or charity. Did you really have to use a word most of the world hasn't ever heard of to prove the point that you don't like charity?
You should stop using our roads then. You should stop using our schools. You should stop using emergency services, voting, or participating in the first world country you're living in.
Because every single program, service, or project uses confiscated monies from the masses to benefit the smaller minority that use those programs, services, or projects.
Taxation is social charity. UBI is social charity. What's the difference?
- tiahura 3y agoTaxation to address collective action problems like the military or the legal system is not charity. This is captured in the US Constitution which provides for the "General Welfare" not welfare for individual citizens.